Quotes About Independence

Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom.

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.

The most persistent threat to freedom, to the rights of Americans, is fear.

Despotism can do without faith but freedom cannot.

Happy slaves are the bitterest enemies of freedom.

Reality has a quality of freedom about it that is hard to explain.

The only thing money is good for is to buy your freedom.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

Choosing the freedom to be uninteresting never quite worked for me.

Freedon is a scary thing. Most people don't want it.

Money equals freedom.

You see, freedom has a way of destroying things.

Freedom is taking control of the rudder of your life.

I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America.

We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries.

I'm all about freedom in art. I'm from Texas, so when someone tells you which way to ride your horse, you think 'I'll just go to a different ranch. You guys are riding it backwards anyway.

Freedom comes from seeing the ignorance of your critics and discovering the emptiness of their virtue.

Pay off your debt first. Freedom from debt is worth more than any amount you can earn.

The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists.

As well might you leave the fairies to plough your land or the idle winds to sow it, as sit down and wait for freedom.

It's an Afghanistan goat, so it can't stay here, or else it'll choke on the sweet air of freedom.

Their poverty secured their freedom, since our desires and our possessions are the strongest fetters of despotism.

We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than only freedom can make security more secure.